The co-chair of the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party, Alice Weidel, has again accused Chancellor Friedrich Merz of electoral fraud, without providing evidence. "They are continuing with ...

The far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party has welcomed conservative leader Friedrich Merz failing to be elected the country's next chancellor in a first round of voting in parliament. AfD ...

Mr. Merz led his party to victory in February’s elections by promising to curb migration, to revitalize the economy and to ...

Some German lawmakers want to ban Alternative for Germany, but the party has been embraced in Washington, and some of its ...

Trust in conservative leader Merz fell to 32% in December—down 6 percentage points from 38% when the government formed in May ...

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz on Thursday said he was "very sceptical" about mounting calls to ban the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD), after domestic intelligence classified the party as ...

Local elections in North Rhine-Westphalia test AfD's appeal Conservatives and SPD under pressure amid economic concerns AfD's rise complicates forming majorities excluding far right GELSENKIRCHEN, ...

BERLIN — Chancellor Friedrich Merz on Monday rejected calls from some in his party to relax its refusal to deal with the far-right Alternative for Germany, declaring that the still-growing party has ...

A coalition deal in Germany has paved the way for conservative leader Friedrich Merz to become the country's 10th chancellor since World War II. As part of the deal, outgoing Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s ...

BERLIN — Chancellor Friedrich Merz's party finished first in municipal polls in Germany's most populous state, but the biggest winner in the first electoral test since Merz's government took power was ...

Markus Frohnmaier was among some 20 state, federal and EU lawmakers from the Alternative for Germany to attend the annual ...

BERLIN (Reuters) - Germany's new Chancellor Friedrich Merz said on Tuesday that simply banning the far-right Alternative for Germany would not end the groundswell of support for it, noting it was key ...